Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMANWar is hell.
More William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes
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I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
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An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man.
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The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
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War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
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If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
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Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
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I intend to make Georgia howl.
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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
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